Despite receiving positive reviews from critics, Netflix decided to pull the plug on The Boroughs after just one season.
The cancellation has caught many by surprise, especially since discussions about a renewal were reportedly underway and plans for future seasons were already being explored, as per Deadline.
Now sources have come forward and revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that creating the Duffer Brothers’ new project was costly. They revealed the series had a quite expensive production budget.
The Boroughs reportedly costs about $10 million per episode, with insiders claiming the actual budget is “materially higher.”
The bigger issue, according to one source, is that the Duffer Brothers’ decision to leave Netflix for a four-year deal with Paramount reportedly upset some top Netflix executives.
The source further claimed that the relationship became “tough” after Matt and Ross were seen as having “embarrassed” the streamer by leaving.
However, a source close to Netflix denied this and says the cancellation is simply a business decision.
A hit show being canceled while still performing on streaming charts is unusual, but that’s what happened to the Duffer Brothers’ Netflix series The Boroughs.
Netflix announced the cancellation on June 17, just weeks after the sci-fi series premiered.
It was packed with a star studded cast including Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters and Bill Pullman.
The cancellation comes as a surprise because the series sat at second place on Netflix’s top 10 English-language TV chart with 5.6 million views.
The Boroughs debuted strong at No. 1 in its first full week with 9.5 million views. It then fell to fourth place the following week with 3.7 million views, before earning 2 million more views from June 8–14, placing eighth.
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